household items used for quilting
#96
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Posts: 857
Plastic grated cheese bottles with screw on plastic lid. Half of lid can be opened to receive clips, open safety pins, etc.
Large plastic flat ties commonly found as closures for bakery products. Label cords for machine, light, etc.
Re-purpose the detachable trays from older tv tray sets. Stackable trays to hold a variety of block pieces.
Heavy duty commercial type baking sheets with rim to act as pull out tray for items in deep cabinet shelves. Cheap
alternative to pull out trays for lower cabinet usually found in kitchen cupboards.
Colorful empty ceramic flower pot to corral the remotes for tv and digital recorder.
Small rubber gripper square usually used for opening jars provides gripper for pulling needle through fabric.
Leather garden gloves in smaller sizes can be cut to become leather thimbles.
Travel jewelry case with zippered plastic compartments used hold needles, extra light bulb, screwdriver, cleaning brushes, machine attachments, and personal ID for each sewing machine you use.
Letter opener with small amount of razor visible to cut apart units when chain stitching sections.
Tissue paper to copy pattern.
Plastic covers from food items to provide template for circle and/or template material for applique.
Bonnie Hunter's tip for trimming plastic hotel key for drawing sewing line for bonus half square triangle.
Large plastic flat ties commonly found as closures for bakery products. Label cords for machine, light, etc.
Re-purpose the detachable trays from older tv tray sets. Stackable trays to hold a variety of block pieces.
Heavy duty commercial type baking sheets with rim to act as pull out tray for items in deep cabinet shelves. Cheap
alternative to pull out trays for lower cabinet usually found in kitchen cupboards.
Colorful empty ceramic flower pot to corral the remotes for tv and digital recorder.
Small rubber gripper square usually used for opening jars provides gripper for pulling needle through fabric.
Leather garden gloves in smaller sizes can be cut to become leather thimbles.
Travel jewelry case with zippered plastic compartments used hold needles, extra light bulb, screwdriver, cleaning brushes, machine attachments, and personal ID for each sewing machine you use.
Letter opener with small amount of razor visible to cut apart units when chain stitching sections.
Tissue paper to copy pattern.
Plastic covers from food items to provide template for circle and/or template material for applique.
Bonnie Hunter's tip for trimming plastic hotel key for drawing sewing line for bonus half square triangle.
#97
Member
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 32
Hi all, I have to give a short presentation at a guild meeting about household items that can be used for quilting. I'm hoping that you all will tell me things that you use, especially things that can be used instead of a more expensive quilting gadget or tool. Thanks
#100
I use straight blades as a stitch ripper (when my daughter isn't around), a pair of rubberized gloves to grip the quilt with when free motion quilting, hair clips for binding or thicker seems, j-cloths for stabilizer under my button holes, and a carpenters square for squaring up quilts. Hope that helps!
I also use some of my quilting supplies to help in household projects.
I also use some of my quilting supplies to help in household projects.
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